I plugged in my old Sony camera, and iPhotos popped up. I picked the pictures on the camera I wanted to import, and it imported them. I then edited them slightly in photoshop, and I was done. No screaming. No chest pains. No spending 45 minutes downloading drivers so it would recognize my camera. Just plug it in, and it works. At any rate, some pictures of Tunch:

Tunch letting me know who is boss.

Sleeping on my Steelers gear that I had put out the night before the game. Nothing is sacred.

John- You know that you should be very honored to share everything you own with a cat! You and your possesions constitute his territory, and he’ll never get why cat hair covering all you have drives you nuts.

and still, there are a fair number of PC users who love to piss all over Mac users.

I like to think of it as a manifestation of pure envy. I have two Apple stickers on my car and not infrequently I see other cars around town who have done likewise… proud to be part of the tribe! How many Windows/PC users love their computers so much they’ll put a Windows sticker on their car?

I plugged in my old Sony camera, and iPhotos popped up. I picked the pictures on the camera I wanted to import, and it imported them. I then edited them slightly in photoshop, and I was done. No screaming. No chest pains. No spending 45 minutes downloading drivers so it would recognize my camera. Just plug it in, and it works.

What I love about PCs, is the keyboard. I type, and words appear on the screen. No flicking switches, no problems with hammer and chisel. It just works.

I plug my Nikon into my PC and poof! The PC recognizes the flash drive. No drivers required. I pull the pictures to my hard drive in one easy motion, then edit them slightly in Paint Shop Pro (though I could use Photoshop if I wanted to).

Easy peezy, no assimilation required. And I can still play WoW or Civ IV without rebooting or switching machines.

having had both types of comps in the house…it will always be Mac for me.

I’d put an Apple sticker on my car, but it would clash with my Beaver (go OSU) sticker.

My cat is black and white…there is no article of clothing she can’t cover. When she lays on the dark clothes she only releases the white hair…when she lays on light clothing, it is only the black hair…it’s uncanny.

Someplace, somewhere there is a 50+year-old picture of one of our old family pets, “Snowball”, a pure white cat, sleeping inside of our old clothes dryer. There was a box of “Tide” Laundry Detergent sitting on the floor right next to the open dryer door. My Mom seriously thought about sending it to Proctor & Gamble or whoever made Tide back then for consideration in their advertising.

Tunch reminds me quite a bit of old Snowball, except for the little brownish ridges between Tunch’s ears and the back of his head. Well…I must note that Tunch is quite a bit more buff than Snowball, not much of a surprise really, since Snowball was a female.

If you like iPhoto, you should give Aperture a try (or Lightroom if you like Adobe stuff). Both have nondistructive editing, so your original photos are never touched. I’m not familiar with all of the feature of Lightroom, but aperture has nifty stuff like the ability to move your master files to external drives and keeping previews local — handy if you have a laptop with limited hard drive capacity.

If you like iPhoto, you should give Aperture a try (or Lightroom if you like Adobe stuff).

Or better yet, don’t. The guiding principle behind Lightroom appears to have been “Hey! I know! We’ll package up some basic basic Photoshop functionality in a UI designed by a dyslexic schizophrenic, then bloat it up to the point where it’s virtually unuseable. And then we’ll sell it to people for $299 a pop!”

The guiding principle behind Lightroom appears to have been “Hey! I know! We’ll package up some basic basic Photoshop functionality in a UI designed by a dyslexic schizophrenic, then bloat it up to the point where it’s virtually unuseable. And then we’ll sell it to people for $299 a pop!”

Me too. I like most of the tweaks they made to core apps like Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign in CS3, but I wish I could just get the apps I need without 1) useless shitware like Bridge & VersionCue and 2) pain-in-the-ass activation schemes.

I have great faith in Adobe…there’s nothing they touch which doesn’t turn into merde…

Bu-bu-but . . . look at what a great job they did with PageMaker when they bought it from Aldus! In 2015 or so, after years of neglect, Adobe can unceremoniously dump DW and Flash for new products that no one really wanted. They could call them something like “GoLive” and “LiveMotion.”